We are writing to urge the United States government to do everything in its power to facilitate the departure from Afghanistan of at-risk Afghans, and to include artists, filmmakers, performers, and writers in that category. As a group of individuals—artists, filmmakers, performers, writers, curators—and institutions, acting in solidarity with our peers in Afghanistan, we recognize the vulnerability of the country’s cultural workers, who are already being targeted by the Taliban and forced into hiding. Like Afghan journalists, activists, and citizens who have assisted the US, cultural workers face threats to their lives because of the work they’ve done—and they are unlikely to get out of the country without immediate changes to Washington’s approach to granting visas and providing flights.

Even before the Taliban’s takeover, cultural workers took grave risks in depicting the experiences and articulating the aspirations of Afghans, with the encouragement—and, often, direct support—of the US government. Now, the vocation of truth-telling has become much more dangerous, and many of our peers see no choice but to leave the country. In addition to standing with advocates for journalists and activists, we insist on the protection of all who have devoted themselves to fostering free expression and civil society in Afghanistan. We make the following demands of the US government, in order to save lives and fulfill the promises made to Afghan allies, colleagues, and friends:

• Take immediate action (through the State Department and Department of Homeland Security) to facilitate expedited visa processing and provide asylum for all vulnerable Afghans.

• Immediately include cultural workers in the categories being used to refer at-risk Afghans for evacuation lists.

• Hold the Taliban accountable to commitments made during the Doha negotiations and to international human rights norms, including the safeguarding of the right to free expression by all members of society and of all aspects of cultural heritage.

Additionally, we stand with other advocates and Afghan citizens in calling on the US government to:

• Remove—or, at least, increase—the quotas for Afghan refugees, and permanently halt any deportations of Afghan refugees currently in progress.

• Keep the Kabul airport open until all at-risk Afghans who wish to evacuate have done so, and allow chartered, commercial, and humanitarian flights to operate out of the airport under the protection of the US. 

• Expedite the processing of Special Immigrant Visas for Afghans who worked with the US government, as well as visas for cultural workers, and remove the requirement that such visas be processed in a third country. (This unnecessary, burdensome rule is jeopardizing the safety of visa applicants.) Instead, allow all visas to be processed either in Afghanistan or the US. 

• Indefinitely suspend the standard (and various) term limits and reapplication requirements for SIV, P-2, and humanitarian parole visas granted to Afghans or, instead, create a new class of extended Temporary Protected Status for all Afghan refugees.  

• Continue to offer international exchange programs and visas for Afghan students.

In addition to the above demands, we call on governments of all nations to facilitate the evacuation and resettlement of Afghan refugees by offering asylum and aid. And we call on Americans and US cultural institutions to bolster our demands by communicating them directly to local and national representatives.

Destroying art and artists has never been incidental to the Taliban’s project. In fact, doing so is at the very foundation of the Taliban’s claim to legitimate power, which is based on a vision of Afghanistan as only ever having been a monoethnic, monotheistic society. Afghanistan’s cultural heritage undermines the Taliban’s claim to power and contradicts the underlying vision. But if a new vision of Afghanistan’s future is ever to emerge, the country’s dreamers must survive.

Alongside our peers in Afghanistan, we are watching events with great concern, and we are demanding swift action to aid Afghans who have risked so much over the years to create independent, defiant, and transformative work—and whose lives are now at risk as a result.

To add your signature, please use this form.

To do more, please see this resource list for institutions and individuals who wish to volunteer time, skills, or resources to support Afghan refugees, including models for sponsoring or hosting artists at risk.

Signatories, as of 9/9:

​​Organizations:

1. 11:11
2. 1497 Advocacy in Film and TV
3. ACA Project, France
4. A-Doc (Asian American Documentary Network)
5. Afghan American Artists and Writers Association (AAAWA)
6. AI for the People, NYC
7. American Alliance for Theater and Education
8. The American Literary Translators Association
9. American Society of Media Photographers
10. Amplifier Art
11. Art Academy of Cincinnati
12. Artists at Risk (AR)
13. Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), PEN America
14. Artist Protection Fund, Institute of International Education
15. Asia Contemporary Art Forum aka ACAW-Asia Contemporary Art Week
16. Asian American Arts Alliance
17. Asian American Arts Center, NYC
18. The Authors Guild 
19. AW Asia
20. Boston Experimental Theater Company
21. Brooklyn Raga Massive, NY
22. CEC ArtsLink
23. Center for Remembering and Sharing, NYC
24. Center of Southeast Asian Art, Passau
25. CIEL | Creative Impact and Experience Lab
26. CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art
27. City University of New York
28. Colombo Art Biennale
29. Creative Capital, NYC
30. Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, San Francisco
31. Digital Media Licensing Association
32. Doc Society, US/UK
33. Documentary Producers Alliance, USA
34. Dramatists Guild of America
35. The D-Word, A virtual community of documentary filmmakers worldwide
36. Faurschou Foundation, NY/Copenhagen/Beijing
37. Film Fatales
38. Film Festival Alliance
39. For Freedoms, USA
40. Frauenmuseum, Berlin
41. Freelancers Union
42. The Fund for Reparations Now! Institute of the Black World 21st Century 
43. FWD-Doc (Documentary Filmmakers with Disabilities), USA
44. Ghetto Gastro, NYC
45. Gibney Dance Inc.
46. Guerrilla Girls on Tour
47. Guild of Future Architects
48. Harlem Arts Foundation
49. International Documentary Association
50. Judd Foundation, NY and Marfa, TX
51. Kindred Arts, Los Angeles
52. Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
53. Leviathan Lab, NYC
54. Lincoln Learning Center, Kohistan
55. Magnum Foundation, NYC
56. mama.film, Wichita, KS
57. Medium Photography, Inc.
58. Museum of Chinese in America
59. National Performance Network
60. National Press Photographers Association
61. National Writers Union
62. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
63. Piatigorsky Foundation
64. PEN America
65. Pinsapo Press & Collective, New York
66. Press Pause, Wilmington, NC
67. RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
68. Resilient Heritage, Chicago
69. Silkroad, Boston
70. Social Development and Research Organization for Afghans (SDROA)
71. Society of Composers and Lyricists
72. South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC)
73. Springboard Danse Montréal
74. Tandy Beal & Company
75. The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)
76. The Learning Community Charter School, Jersey City
77. TheaterWorkers Project, Los Angeles
78. Tracing Patterns Foundation
79. Tulsa Artist Fellowship
80. Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia
81. University of Illinois at Chicago
82. US Department of Arts and Culture
83. Vidiots Foundation
84. Visible Justice, London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London
85. VOICE Amplified
86. Voices for Social Justice
87. Whisper n Thunder, Phoenix, AZ
88. WIF (Women In Film) Los Angeles

Initial individual signatories (through morning of 8/24):

1. Angela Adams, Director, Arlington Public Art, Arlington, VA
2. Phoebe Adams, Visual Artist, Retired Art Professor, Phipsburg, Maine
3. Claire Aguilar, Producer, Women Make Movies, Los Angeles
4. Karim Ahmad, Los Angeles
5. Leeza Ahmady, Director/Curator, Asian Contemporary Art Forum, New York
6. Hadar Ahuvia, Brooklyn, NY
7. Livia Alexander, Curator, Brooklyn, NY
8. Miguel Amado, Director, SIRIUS, Ireland
9. Lee Ambrozy, Art historian, New York University, Saint Clair Shores
10. Nathalie Angles, Executive Director, Residency Unlimited Inc, Brooklyn, NY
11. Corina Apostol, Curator, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
12. Emily Apter, Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University, New York
13. Setare Arashloo, Artist, New York
14. Kiran Arora, Preparator, MoMA PS1, New York
15. Floor Grootenhuis, Artist, Hunter College, CUNY,
16. Ratik Asokan, Brooklyn
17. Armine Avetisyan, Project Manager, Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts, Brandeis University, Watertown, MA
18. Rachel Aviv, Journalist, The New Yorker, Brooklyn
19. Shelly Bahl, Independent artist, curator and educator
20. Judith Barry, Artist, NYC
21. Nour Batyne, Founder, Disruptivist, Brooklyn, NY
22. Joyce Beckenstein, Freelance writer, New York
23. Lindsay Bedford, New York City
24. Natalie Bell, Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
25. Ginny Benson, Assistant Performance Coordinator, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
26. Joe Berlinger, Documentary Filmmaker: Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Deception, CT
27. Ted Berger, Board President, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY
28. Albert Bernstein, Psychologist, Portland, Oregon
29. Claire Bishop, Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
30. James Blackketter, Kent, CT
31. Brent Blair, Director, USC Institute for Theatre & Social Change, Los Angeles, CA USA
32. Doug Block, Director/Producer, Copacetic Pictures, New York, NY
33. Alexandria Bombach, Independent Film Director, RED REEL, New Mexico, USA
34. Corinne Botz, Artist, Cornwallville, New York
35. Jane Breakell, Institutional Giving Officer, The Paris Review, New York
36. Moira Brennan, New York, NY
37. Kim Brizzolara, Vice Chair, Hamptons International Film Festival, New York
38. Nicholas Brooke, Music Professor, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
39. Vic Brooks, senior curator, time-based visual, EMPAC, Troy, NY
40. Katie Buonanno, Brooklyn, NY
41. Kisha Cameron, Producer, Completion Films, Los Angeles, CA
42. Laura Campbell, Actress/Producer, Film Fatales, Los Angeles
43. Felicity Cain, Deputy Country Director, Turquoise Mountain, Afghanistan
44. Mireila Castillo Saladrigues, Artist and researcher, University of the Arts Helsinki
45. Rosane Chamecki, Choreographer, chameckilerner, New York
46. Dawn Chan, Writer, New York
47. Shahrzad Changalvaee, Artist, Brooklyn 
48. J Chao, Triple Canopy, NYC
49. Ashanti Chaplin, Curator of Public Engagement, New York
50. Myrel Chernick, Artist/writer, New York
51. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Torino, Italy
52. Lee Chun Fung, Artist/curator, Hong Kong
53. Tiffany Chung, Visual Artist, USA
54. Rebecca Cleman, Executive Director, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York City
55. Matt Coch, Brooklyn, NY
56. Nancy Cohen, Artist/professor, Queens College, Queens, NY
57. Cynthia Cohen, Director, Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts, Brandeis University, MA
58. Joshua Cohen, Writer, NYC
59. Charlotte Cohen, Executive Director, Brooklyn Arts Council , Brooklyn, NY
60. Teju Cole, Writer/photographer/ professor, Harvard University, Cambridge
61. Nikki Columbus, New York
62. Maureen Connor, Emerita Professor of Art, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, NY
63. Charlotte Cook, Co-creator & Executive Producer, Field of Vision
64. Kenneth Cooper, Vice Chair, Studio in a School, New York, NY
65. Paul Cooper, Retired, Brevard, nc
66. James Costanzo, Adjunct Assistant Professor with Tenure, Pratt Institute , Brooklyn
67. Matthew Craven, Woodworker, Seattle, Washington
68. Bedatri Datta Choudhury, Managing Editor, International Documentary Association, New York
69. Iftikhar Dadi, Professor, Cornell University
70. Jill Dawsey, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
71. Lara Day, Writer, Australia
72. Dina Deitsch, Director, Tufts University Art Galleries, Somerville
73. Elena Demyanenko, Professor, Bennington College, Bennington
74. Kayo Dena, Librarian for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
75. Jane Debevoise, Asia Art Archive in America, Brooklyn, NY
76. David Diamond, Curator, La MaMa Umbria International, New York USA
77. Ameena Din, Consultant, , New York City
78. Andrea Divine, Director of Finance, Wende Museum, Los Angeles, CA
79. Jenny Dixon, Director Emeritus, Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, New York
80. Simon Dove, Executive Director, CEC ArtsLink, New York
81. Julia Draganovic, Director, German Academy Rome Villa Massimo, Rome and President, IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, Osnabruck, Germany
82. Erina Duganne, Professor of Art History, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
83. Alberto Duman, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Middlesex University, London
84. Carol Dysinger, Professor, New York University Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film, New York
85. Rehab Eldalil, Documentary photographer , Cairo, Egypt
86. Carol S. Eliel, Senior Curator of Modern Art, Los Angeles
87. Anne Ellegood, Executive Director, ICA LA, Los Angeles
88. Chloe Engel, Brooklyn
89. Rafael Espinal, Executive Director, Freelancers Union, New York, NY
90. Amber Espinosa-Jones, Manager, Outreach & Inclusion, Sundance Institute, Los Angeles
91. Donelle Estay, Artist, New York
92. Wendy Ettinger, Producer, New York
93. Wendy Ewald, Photographer, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
94. JiaJia Fei, Digital Strategist, For Freedoms, New York USA
95. Cristina Ferrigno, MFA candidate, SPQ, Queens
96. Yevgeniy Fiks, Artist, New York
97. Catherine Filloux, Playwright, Librettist, Educator, Activist, Acting Together/ReCast, NYC
98. Anne Fisher, Senior Lecturer, Translation and Interpreting Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
99. Kathy Fletcher, Executive Director, Silkroad, Boston
100. Hal Foster, Professor, Princeton University, Princeton NJ
101. Arthur Fournier, Rare bookseller, Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare, LLC, Brooklyn, NY
102. Kate Fowle, New York
103. Geoffrey Fox, Carboneras, Allmejría, Spain
104. Coco Fusco, Artist, New York
105. Rivka Galchen, Writer, Columbia university , New York
106. Michael Galinsky, Filmmaker, Rumur, North Carolina
107. Olga Garay-English, Principal, OMGArtsplus, Los Angeles
108. Dylan Gauthier, Director, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, NY
109. Sarrah George, President, Worthy Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA
110. Andrea Geyer, Artist, New York
111. Mariam Ghani, Artist and filmmaker, Indexical Films, Brooklyn, NY
112. Maryam Ghoreishi, Curator/Programs Manager, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn
113. Michael Giannitti, Professor, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
114. Gabrielle Giattino, Gallery Owner, Bureau, New York
115. Zanna Gilbert, Senior Research Specialist, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
116. Megan Gilbride, Independent Documentary Producer; Board Member, DPA, Documentary Producers Alliance, Los Angeles, CA
117. Larry Goldbetter, President, National Writers Union, New York City
118. Janet Goldner, Artist, New York
119. Eric Gottesman, Artist, For Freedoms, USA
120. Tamara Gould, ITVS, Washington DC
121. Saisha Grayson, Curator,  Washington, D.C.
122. Charles Green, Playwright, New York
123. Mitch Greenhill, President, Folklore Inc. (dba FLi Artists), Santa Monica CA
124. Peter Grossman, American, Florida
125. Andrea Grover, Sag Harbor, NY
126. Libertad Guerra, Executive Director, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center, NY
127. Nicole Guillemet, Programmer, El Gouna Film Festival, New York
128. David Guzman, Baltimore, MD
129. Amy Halliday, Independent Curator, Boston, USA & Bristol, UK
130. Ed Halter, Writer / Curator, Light Industry, Brooklyn
131. Heng-Gil Han, Director, Korea Art Forum, New York
132. Ryan Harrington, Head of Film, Kinema, New York
133. Carla Harryman, Professor, poet and artist, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
134. Casey Hartnett, Film Fatales, New York City
135. Craig Harwood, Director, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, New York
136. Merna Ann Hecht, Teaching Artist-Poet-Social Justice Educator, Word Travels: Refugee & Immigrant Voices and Visibility, Vashon
137. Judith Henry, Artist, Brooklyn, NY
138. Betti-Sue Hertz, New York, NY, USA
139. Amy Herzog, Professor, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY
140. Juan Hinojosa, Artist, New York
141. Adam Hogan, Assistant Professor of Art, University of Arkansas, School of Art, Fayetteville, AR
142. David Horvitz, Los Angeles
143. Hanru Hou, Artistic Director, MAXXI, National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy, Rome
144. Max Houghton, Senior Lecturer, University of the Arts London, London
145. Melissa Houghton, Executive Director, Women in Film & Video, Washington, DC
146. Lily House-Peters, Assistant Professor, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
147. Becky Howland, Artist, NYC
148. Aaron Huey, Founder and Creative Director, Amplifier.org, Seattle, WA
149. Laura Hyatt, Executive Director, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Art Division), Los Angeles, CA
150. Donna Hylton, President, A Little Piece of Light, New York
151. Charlotte Ickes, Curator, Washington, DC
152. Fran Ilich, Artist and writer, Diego de la Vega Coffee Co-op, New York City
153. Germaine Ingram, Independent artist, Cultural Worker, Philadelphia PA
154. Jessica Ingram, Artist, Nashville, Tennessee
155. Kayhan Irani, Producing Director, Artivista Productions, New York, NY
156. Hitomi Iwasaki, Curator, Jackson Heights, NY
157. Ana Janevski, Curator, New York
158. Taylor Jasper, Curatorial Assistant, The Momentary, Rogers, AR
159. Evelyne Jouanno, Founder and Director, Ars Citizen , Paris / San Francisco / Rome
160. Amina Kadous, Cairo, Egypt
161. Lauren Kane, Assistant Editor, The Paris Review, New York City
162. Farrah Karapetian, Los Angeles, CA
163. Eva Karczag, Independent Dance Artist, NY, NY
164. Jeff Kasper, Artist and Professor, Northampton, MA
165. Cindi Katz, Professor, City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY
166. Umair Kazi, The Authors Guild, New York, NY
167. Erin Ellen Kelly, Artist, Choreographer, New York City
168. Jon Kessler, Professor of Art, Columbia University, New York
169. Grant Kester, Professor of Art History, University of California, San Diego
170. Caroline Key, Teaching Instructor/ filmmaker, Rutgers University, Brooklyn, NY
171. Mana Kia, Associate Professor, Columbia University, New York
172. Molly Kleiman, Director, Triple Canopy, Brooklyn, NY
173. Josh Kline, Artist, Brooklyn
174. Gary Knight, CEO, VII Foundation 
175. Hai-Li Kong, Video Production Lead, Think!Chinatown, Brooklyn
176. Raksak Kongseng, Executive Director, Thai Theatre Foundation, New York
177. Olga Kopenkina, Independent Curator
178. Joyce Kozloff, Artist, We Make America, New York
179. Prem Krishnamurthy, Wkshps, Berlin / New York
180. Lisa Kron, Playwright, New York City
181. Hari Kunzru, Novelist, New York City
182. Carin Kuoni, Director, Vera List Center for Art & Politics, New York
183. Sophie Landres, Professor/Program Manager, The New School / OSUN Center for Human Rights & The Arts, New York
184. Miranda Lash, Ellen Bruss Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver
185. Terry Lawler, New York
186. Jeffrey Lee, Partner, RYAN LEE , New York, NY
187. Jessica Y Lee, Production Committee, GYOPO, New York, NY
188. Yoon Ju Ellie Lee, Executive Director, Equitable Vitrines, and Steering Committee Member, GYOPO, Los Angeles, CA
189. Julia Lee, Journalist, Los Angeles, CA
190. Yining Li, Assistant Curator, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
191. Andrew Leland, Northampton, MA
192. Loraine Leeson, Dr., Middlesex University, London
193. Andrea Lerner, Artistic Director, Chameckilerner, NYC/ US
194. Beth Levison, Producer/Director, Hazel Pictures, New York NY
195. Roberta Levitow, Co-founder and Director, Theatre Without Borders, Santa Monica, California
196. Leslie Levy, Artist, Kent, CT
197. Georgina Lewis, Artist, Boston, MA
198. Jen Liu, Artist, Staten Island
199. Adriel Luis, Curator, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Los Angeles
200. Jacqueline Mabey, PhD Candidate and Independent Producer, University College London, London and New York
201. Jun Mabuchi, Cultural producer / ceramist , For Freedoms, Brooklyn
202. Lauren Mackler, Public Fiction, Los Angeles
203. Ananya Madiraju, Collections assistant, Wende Museum, Los Angeles
204. Scott Malbaurn, Director, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
205. Michael Mandiberg, Professor, City University of New York (College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center), New York
206. Amita Manghnani, Associate Director, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, NYU, New York
207. Guy Mannes-Abbott, Author/Critic, London, UK/Europe
208. Susan Margolin, Producer, St. Marks Productions, New York
209. Lesley Martin, Creative Director, New York
210. Neyda Martinez, Associate Professor, The New School, NYC
211. Michelle Materre, Professor, The New School, New York City
212. Steven Matijcio, Director & Chief Curator, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston
213. Mary Mattingly, Artist, New York, NY
214. Marisa Mazria Katz, Journalist, Individual, New York
215. Park McArthur, Tepper Chair, Department of Art and Design, Rutgers University , Princeton, NJ
216. Meredith McCanse, Denver, CO
217. Kim McDonald, Artist, Sandy Point
218. Mack McFarland, Executive Director / educator / artist,  Converge 45 / Lewis & Clark College / PNCA , Portland, Oregon, USA
219. Susan Meiselas, Photographer, Magnum Foundation, New York
220. D.A. Mekonnen, Boston
221. Steve Mendelsohn, CFO, Ominium Circus, New York, NY
222. James Meyer, Curator of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
223. Jonathan Miller, President, Icarus Films and OVID.tv, New York, NY
224. Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C and Anita L Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, MFA Boston
225. Nicholas Miller, Designer, Davies Toews Architects, New York, NY
226. Sherry Millner, Media Professor, CUNY, NYC
227. Yong Min, Artist/professor, GYOPO, Los Angeles
228. Naeem Mohaiemen, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Columbia University , New York
229. Giovanni Montoya, Brooklyn, NY
230. Fraser Mooney, Executive Director, Doctors of the World/Médecins du Monde International, New York
231. Ranu Mukherjee, Artist, Professor of Art, Ranu Mukherjee, San Francisco
232. Alysa Nahmias, AJNA Films, Los Angeles, CA, USA
233. Varsha Nair, Artist, India
234. Novogrod Nancy, Founder, Culturati Travel Design, New York, New York
235. Perwana Nazif, Art Director, Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles, CA
236. Raphaela Neihausen, Executive Director, DOC NYC, New York, NY
237. Viet Nguyen, Writer, Los Angeles, CA
238. Maria Niro, Director/Producer of The Art of Un-War, Crossing Waters, New York NY
239. Wendi Norris, Owner/Director, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA
240. Richard Novick, Professor emeritus, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York City
241. John Novogrod, Partner, McLaughlin and Stern, LLP, New York, New York
242. John Oakes, Publisher, The Evergreen Review, New York City
243. Ian Olds, Film Director, Fixer: The Taking Of Ajmal Naqshbandi, Brooklyn, NY
244. Lee Painter Kim, SDA/GYOPO, Los Angeles, CA
245. Nicole Page, Partner, Reavis Page Jump LLP, new york
246. Allison Paller, Web Manager, Seven Stories Press, Austin, TX
247. Yatin Parkhani, Producer/editor, beyondmaya, los angeles, ca
248. Danielle Perissi, CEO, Hinter Media, New York
249. Jenny Perlin, Filmmaker/ artist, Brooklyn, NY
250. Richard Ray Perez , International Documentary Association (IDA)
251. Eriola Pira, Curator, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York
252. Barbara Pollack, Co-founder, Art at a Time Like This Inc, New York
253. Leila Pourtavaf, Assistant Professor of Global Public History, York University, Toronto, Canada
254. Alexander Provan, Editor, Triple Canopy, Brooklyn, New York
255. Gabriel Quick, PhD Candidate, Boston University, Boston, MA 
256. Robert Quinn, Executive Director, Scholars at Risk, New York
257. Walid Raad, Artist and Professor, The Cooper Union, New York
258. Michael Rakowitz, Artist and Professor, Northwestern University, Chicago
259. Christine Rank, Head of Collections, The Wende Museum, Los Angeles
260. Mary Rasenberger, CEO, The Authors Guild, New York 
261. Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Writer, New York
262. Oreet Rees, PhD, Los Angeles, CA
263. Victoria Reis, Executive & Artistic Director, Transformer, Washington, DC
264. Dana Reitz, Dance Professor, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
265. Kevin Repp, Curator, Yale University, Hamden, CT
266. Oliver Ressler, Artist and filmmaker, Vienna
267. Jason Rhee, A-Doc, Chicago
268. Michella Rivera-Gravage, Producer, 
269. Jack Robinson, Executive Director, 4heads, Inc., Brooklyn, NY
270. D. N. Rodowick, Professor/Artist, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
271. Alain Rogier, Artist, Los Angeles, California
272. Tyler Rollins, New York, NY
273. Ricardo Roman, Artist, New York
274. Grace Roselli, Artist, Pandora’s BoxX Project, New York
275. Martha Rosler, Artist, Brooklyn, New York
276. Ellen Rothenberg, Professor Adj., The School of the At Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
277. Peter Russo, Brooklyn, NY
278. Tamara Saade, Beirut
279. Wendy Sacks, Ms., We Make America, Brooklyn NY
280. Marjan Safinia, Director/Producer, And She Could Be Next, Los Angeles, CA
281. Abigail Satinsky, Curator & Head of Public Engagement, Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, MA
282. Roderick Schrock, Executive Director, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY
283. Joes Segal, Chief Curator and Director of Programming , Wende Museum of the Cold War, Los Angeles
284. Susan Sellers, Designer and Creative Director, 2×4, New York, New York
285. Susan Sgorbati, Director, The Center for the Advancement of Public  Action, Bennington College
286. Toni Shapiro-Phim, Assistant Director and Professor, Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA
287. Atif Sheikh, Program Director, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA
288. Himali Singh Soin, Artist, London/ New Delhi
289. Steven Siegel, Artist, New York, NY
290. Sadia Shirazi, Art historian and independent curator, ACLS postdoctoral fellow, Brooklyn, NY
291. Gregory Sholette, Professor, CUNY, New York, NY
292. Virginia Shore, Curator, Shore Art Advisory/ Former Chief Curator of Art in Embassies and the Kabul Embassy Project, Washington, DC
293. Evan Shulman, Mockingbird Culture, San Diego, CA
294. Steven Siegel, Artist, Tivoli, NY
295. Shelly Silver, Artist and Professor, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY
296. Jeffrey Skoller, Professor, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
297. David Snider, Executive and Artistic Director, Hubbard Hall Center for the Arts and Education, Cambridge, NY
298. Pallavi Somusetty, Filmmaker, Oakland
299. Shira Sternberg, Mom and former Obama administrator, North Bennington, Vermont
300. Emily Stokes, Editor, The Paris Review, New York
301. Seth Stolbun
302. Elisabeth Subrin, Filmmaker, Professor, Temple University Dept of Film and Media Arts, Brooklyn, NY
303. Vladislav Suldisky, Co-Founder, Eurasian Cultura Alliance/ Metis Art Education, Almaty, Kazakhstan
304. Suinbike Suleimenova-Bazargaliyeva, Director, Suinbike Video, Almaty, Kazakhstan
305. Astria Suparak, Artist, writer, curator, Oakland, CA
306. Xue Tan, Senior Curator, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
307. Jeannine Tang, Assistant Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art, The New School, New York
308. Sarah Tanguy, Curator and Arts Writer, Independent, Washington, DC
309. Alexandra Tatarsky, Artist-researcher, Shanzhai Lyric 
310. Shifra Teitelbaum, Adjunct faculty, Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA
311. Sara Terry, Founder/Director, The Aftermath Project, Los Angeles, California, USA
312. Hank Willis Thomas, Artist, For Freedoms, Brooklyn
313. Anna Thomas, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
314. Anne Thompson, Director and Curator, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
315. Anne Thurmond, Assistant Director, Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, NY
316. Lynne Tillman, Professor and Writer in Residence, English Dept, The University at Albany, New York
317. Julie Tolentino, Artist, Joshua Tree, CA
318. Julia Tompkins, Associate Strategist, 2×4, New York, NY
319. Ashley Tucker, Director of Programs, Artistic Freedom Initiative, New York, New York
320. Erin Turner, Artist, New York
321. Melanie Cooper Umberger, Jasper, GA
322. Jason Underhill, Los Angeles, CA
323. Jessica Vaughn, Artist, Brooklyn, NY
324. Annie Verhallen, Co-founder, Art at a Time Like This, New York
325. Cecilia Vicuña, Artist/poet, New York City
326. Anuradha Vikram, Curator and Writer, Curative Projects, Los Angeles, CA
327. Caroline von Kuhn, Los Angeles, CA
328. Polly Walker, Associate Professor Emeritus, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA
329. Amei Wallach, Director, Gert Productions/Gert Literary Services, Mattituck, NY
330. Helen Warwick, New York, NY
331. Lilly Wei, Art Critic, Independent Curator, Journalist, New York, NY
332. Louise Weinberg, Co-Director, Godwin-Ternbach Museum Queens College, New York, NY
333. Andrew Weiner, Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University, New York, NY
334. Jeffrey Weiss, Brooklyn, NY
335. Stephanie Weissberg, Associate Curator, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO
336. Amy Westpfahl, Artist/Administrator, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
337. Allan Wexler, Artist, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
338. Patricia White, Professor, Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, PA
339. Robert Wiesenberger, Associate Curator of Contemporary Projects, Clark Institute of Art, Williamstown, MA
340. Maya Wiley, Former Candidate for NYC Mayor, Brooklyn, NY
341. Evan Calder Williams, Associate Professor, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
342. Patricia Williams, Professor of Law Emerita, Columbia University, New York, NY
343. Sarah Williams, Executive Director, Feminist Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, CA
344. Martha Wilson, Artist, New York, NY
345. Juliette Wolf-Robin, National Executive Director, American Photographic Association, Los Angeles, CA
346. Ben Wood, Visual Artist, San Francisco, CA
347. Caitlin Woolsey, Assistant Director, Research and Academic Program, The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
348. Kathy Wright, Artist, Sarasota, FL
349. Nanette Yannuzzi-Macias, Professor, Oberlin College & Conservatory
350. Annie Young, Film Fatales, Brooklyn NY
351. Constantina Zavitsanos, Artist, New York, NY
352. Hai Zhang, Artist, New York
353. Debra Zimmerman, Executive Director, Women Make Movies, New York, NY
354. F. Anthony Zunino, Architect, Zuberry Development Corp., Hobe Sound, FL

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